Saints, sages and sufferings

 When I look at lifestories of Catholic saints,

What do I see most?

What is most emphasized?

That they suffer so much.

Oh, how they suffer but with such joy and peace.

They have that also, joy and bliss.

But the sufferings, are much elaborated on.

I look at stories told of Indian mystics,

And what do I see?

Joy, bliss, lost in the Divine in Samadhi.

It reveals the differences in perception.

I moved from the cult of sufferings.

Having being bought into it 

By reason the teachings and inculcation.

Sufferings are good lessons to learn.

Suffering is the best teacher,

However, when it becomes so paramount.

It becomes a tool.

When you perceive a tool to be so good.

Would you let it go?

No, you hold onto it.

Holding onto the suffering like pure gold.

This is Dark Night of the Soul,

It will lead me to Union with God.

When it might very well not be.

And just a bad patch we are able to work on.

Sufferings as goods.

Suffering hold before our eyes as goods.

We would be able to skip purgatory.

Or at least suffer a lesser purgatory.

And so a dear one of mine held onto the sufferings.

God, Jesus wants me to suffer, she intoned.

Not taking anything to help with the intense sufferings

Of terminal sickness.

I would not take that route.

I would use all means available to lessen physical sufferings.

What is enlightenment but wisdom and knowledge

as we walk our path to God, to the Oneness.

Our own path, our own native path.

And that is my life right now.

Walking my own path to God.

Taking from here and there,

All helps and props as I make my journey.

Regardless of the sources they come from,

Taoism, Buddhism, Indian mystics, 

or Philosophers and physicists.

We all study the same thing, God, Universe.

We all move toward the same, God, Universe.